Her theories say you must not be evil no matter what! Why would you choose to damn yourself!!! ...alright, someone who's firmly Good can choose to do some Evil for profit, but presumably they already know that? Anyway, Tanya will write them down when she has time to spare. A Commune is presumably not worth it for every minor invention, she'll ask the Songbird what she thinks in general and if she approves she'll either sell designs for things like the slide rule, if it can be sold, or publish them freely if that's Good. The information on plumbing can also be written down, maybe just published, it would take serious effort to implement at scale and Tanya isn't going to lead a project to convince a particular government to do it but it's probably Good to have it generally known (again, pending a check). Elevators can ever fail in ways that injure someone despite the safety brake but do so very rarely, and the effect can be quantified in testing and evaluated on its merits like other engineering. ...she'll check if introducing something that usually helps people a little but very rarely injures someone is evil.

It makes sense that different races have different advantages at some kinds of manual labor or physically dangerous environments. Tanya doesn't see herself owning or running a mine, at most she'd sell them a pump design or contract with them for ore or something. (Are all the non-dwarf mines Evil? She knew mining was dangerous and harmful on Earth, but if the workers know the risks and still sign up without coercion because they're adequately compensated is that still Evil? She'll need to check.)

Her thoughts about orcs wearing livery can remain private.

And they're coming up on the end of their meeting time but he can reserve her another slot at no charge if she expects to want to come back.

They haven't finished, and she wants to come back. She'd like to finish with a more concrete list of projects they haven't definitely ruled out, the expected Good or monetary profit of each if he has any way to quantify that, which ones are profitable enough for him consider investing, and ideally some outline of how to approach them or what they might require in capital and expertise. She's not sure if asking a Commune question requires submitting a detailed project proposal, or just a specification of the goal but then you have to stick to that goal exactly to make sure the answer remains valid, or what. How much do Commune questions cost anyway?

Commune questions get, virtually always, a "yes" or "no" answer. You should formulate your question in such a way that this is as useful as possible, and think ahead about what you will do if you get a "yes" versus a "no" (or an "unclear", which sometimes happens especially if you kind of fuck up at the thinking ahead step).

If you are fine with your Commune question being answered at any old time when there's already a Commune going and the answer is of interest to the god/church/individual cleric, it's still going to be measured in substantial whacks of gold (...at fair market rate; it's not unheard of for very church-relevant questions posed at particularly convenient moments for the caster when a question would otherwise go unused to be free). The Iomedaeans have a scheme to get them cheaper in money by somehow cramming more questions into a single casting, but Fiducia Accorsi is not acquainted with how exactly they do it and, relatedly, most of them actually cannot do it, there's some kind of special training program they have to go attend in Lastwall to learn how it's done correctly. And they're only cheaper in the "squeezing more questions in per spell" way specifically, the Iomedaeans have very stringent standards for what is worth calling their goddess's attention to and are likelier to let a question go unused entirely than another church would be. Tanya's whole deal might, to be clear, easily count by their standards, and he recommends checking in with someone who can find out if they can get her a free or cheap Commune answer, and/or find out if her many and vague questions can be by their clever schemes reduced to fewer and more specific questions. Iomedaeans are competent to respect confidentiality agreements if she doesn't want them leaking Commune-question-derived facts about the zipper all over Creation.

He can have a writeup of the approximate investability and rough Evil-risk of each loose scheme they've discussed made available at the front desk of the church for her to collect in a day's time without needing to arrange a specific appointment hour for it.

Then she'll collect his writeup tomorrow and read it, and consider or try to learn anything indicated by that, before she follow up with him. And she'll talk to the Iomedaens. (Possibly in another country, to kill two birds with one stone.)

"Thank you for your time; I hope this proves fruitful for both of us." Is her best guess of what one politely says to an Abadaran, apparently.

"May you discover what you most want and buy it." Handshake? Do they do those on her planet?

Handshake! (She knew he'd deduce she's from another planet without her saying it; there's no other reasonable explanation for her knowing so many novel and alien things, and also being unable to return home.)

And then she's alone with Belmarniss again.

"That was interesting. Y'wanna hit up the Iomedaeans today?"

Interesting is certainly a way to put it. "I considered flying to other countries to check if any are better about prejudice, or anything else that would stand out. And talking to the Iomedaeans and Abadarans there, in case it's just a problem with Taldor's culture. But I can't do that quickly with you - I'm willing to do it slowly with you, if you want, but you seem to be happy with the library here. We could make Almas in a day, but being a neighboring nation probably means Andoran is also culturally similar. Anyway, if you want to come talk to the Iomedaens here let's do that." If they'll also want a lot of money for the meeting Tanya won't be able to afford to talk to foreign churches, but she can at least talk to the Shelynites there. Or maybe Songbird Cuoco knows something.

"Andoran is also a former part of the Taldan empire and broke away from Cheliax, itself an Arodenite empire, in living memory, so it might not be all that different in the ways you're looking for. Arodenism really got around. It's fine if you wanna really book it across the Inner Sea without me, I'm doing okay."

The biggest Iomedaean temple is not hard to find.

"I'm only planning to scout. There are more distant continents... I'd need a local Share Language, though, if they don't speak Taldane, I guess that rules that out. I can reach the nearer cities quickly enough that it's probably still worth to check them out. Absalom isn't that far but I don't know how I'd fly you to Absalom, I can't fly for that long with the hammock over the sea... Maybe we could think of something if you wanted to visit it."

Is there someone helpfully welcoming visitors to the Iomedaean temple or should they try to chat up a friendly-looking person like she did with the Shelynites?

"Taldane is popular around the Inner Sea but comes in dialects and will be less dominant farther south, I think. We could carry some kind of raft but I don't love the idea of being on a raft that can collapse small enough to go in the bag, in the sea, I can wait to see Absalom."

"A raft or small boat isn't safe, there could be a storm."

"You can probably buy Read Weather results from incoming ships in a port, but yeah, there could, or just big waves, or sea monsters, which are more on my mind because you get the latter two things in underground seas but not the storms."

"Better not risk it. I wonder how long it takes ships to sail there." It's about three hundred miles, but Tanya barely knows anything about sailing ships. They risk running out of wind, right?

"Could go look at schedules in the port."

"I'll take a look later." 

The Iomedaean temple used to be an Arodenite one and has not shed all of the original iconography but it does have a statue of a full-plated swordswoman placed prominently out front and it's done up in red and white banners with the sword-and-sun on them. There's a stable attached, and a horse in the yard watching them approach.

The statue is - nice; it reminds her of home a little.

Is the horse by any chance a sapient being here to greet and direct visitors?

It does not speak to them, just watches. The doors are propped a little ways open, though, they can walk inside.

Inside they go. Watching out for any paladins hidden behind the door.

There's some people around in the temple, and one of them is even wearing a suit of armor, but nobody leaps to their feet to point accusingly at Tanya. A boy maybe Tanya's own age comes up to them when they enter. "Hello, welcome to the temple of the Inheritor, may I ask what brings you here today?"

Deep breath. "Hello. My name is Tanya von Degurechaff, and this is Belmarniss. I have some unusual skills and I'm looking for advice on how to apply them for Good. I will be able to say a lot more about myself if the meeting is confidential, but I can say some things even if it isn't."

"I think Select Oliva will probably be out of his present meeting in about twenty minutes, how would you like me to summarize your needs when I introduce you?"

"I'm from far away, arrived here in a magical accident, and have spells that aren't known locally, and also some knowledge that may or may not be useful. I found out that I detect as lawful evil and so my overriding need is to stop being evil, but that does not mean I am unwilling or uninterested in continuing to do good afterwards." It would be nice to retire to an afterlife where she can't be sent to hell regardless of Pharasma's judgement as soon as she qualifies, but she will commit not to do that for a while if that's what it takes. "I've talked to the Shelynites for advice on doing Good and avoiding incidental Evils, and then I talked to the Abadarans about ways to make money - which I could then donate to charity - and they both recommended I talk to you too."

"What does the title Select indicate, please?"